Making It Happen: Middle Managers' Roles in Innovation Implementation in Health Care

Uncovering middle managers' role in healthcare innovation implementation

BACKGROUND Middle managers have received little attention in extant health services research, yet they may have a key role in healthcare innovation implementation. The gap between evidence of effective care and practice may be attributed in part to poor healthcare innovation implementation. Investigating middle managers' role in healthcare innovation implementation may reveal an opportunity for...

Making It Happen: Training health-care providers in emergency obstetric and newborn care.

An estimated 289,000 maternal deaths, 2.6 million stillbirths and 2.4 million newborn deaths occur globally each year, with the majority occurring around the time of childbirth. The medical and surgical interventions to prevent this loss of life are known, and most maternal and newborn deaths are in principle preventable. There is a need to build the capacity of health-care providers to recogni...

Implementation of "Chronic Care Model" for Diabetes Care in Iranian Primary Health Care: Does it work?

Objective: Traditional health care systems were not capable to face successfully with chronic diseases including diabetes mellitus. In this regard, the Chronic Care Model or CCM was created to promote quality of care. The aim of this study was to examine whether establishment of chronic care model, with focus on diabetic patients, has led to clinically significant outcomes in Iran. Materials a...

Field Studies in Practice: Making it Happen

Field studies and user requirements analysis are highly valued practices in the human-computer interaction community. However, in companies, field study methods are not widely used and they still encounter resistance. In this paper, we describe a longitudinal research effort conducted in two companies to introduce field studies and make them a part of the product development process. A strategy...

Gender Mainstreaming: Making It Happen